This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to manually download & install the new Gnome Adwaita Sans and Adwaita Mono fonts in all current Ubuntu releases. GNOME introduced new interface font in version 48, named Adwaita Sans and Adwaita Mono. While, Ubuntu does not ship Adwaita fonts in system repository, user can […]
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Rescuezilla is a specialist Ubuntu-based distribution designed for system rescue tasks, including backups and system restoration. The project’s latest release, version 2.6, updates the b…
EndeavourOS Mercury Neo distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.13.7, updated core components, bug fixes, and an improved installation.
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GNU Parallel 20250322 (‘Have you said thank you’) has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4
Quote of the month:
te amo gnu parallel
— Ayleen I. C. @ayleen_ic
New in this release:
When hitting a –mi…
Rescuezilla 2.6 distribution is now available for download with a new build based on Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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Canonical has announced that it now ‘officially supports’ Ubuntu on the NVIDIA Jetson Orin series of computing modules, designed for low-power AI and machine learning applications. The General Availability (GA) of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for the N…
Debian-based Finnix 250 Linux distribution for system administrators is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS. Here’s what’s new!
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Finnix distribution is a small, self-contained, bootable live Linux distribution for system administrators, based on Debian. The project’s latest version is Finnix 250 which marks th…
Version 3.19 of GNU mailutils is available for download. This is a bug-fixing release. Noteworthy changes are:
mail: part specifier accepted after any message designator
filters: revise buffer requirements when requesting more input/output
l…
Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.
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GNU DBM version 1.25 is available for download. New in this release:
New function: gdbm_open_ext
This function provides a general-purpose interface for opening and creating GDBM files. It combines the possibilities of gdbm_open and gdbm_fd_op…
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. ReactOS is an open source operating system which seeks to be binary compatible with Microsoft Windows. The project has published a new release, version 0.4.15, which includes improvement…
A new version of Miracle-WM, the Mir-based tiling window manager developed by Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek is out, the first update to be released this year. Miracle-WM 0.5 adds a number of new features, compatibility enhancements, and (at long l…
Did you have time to keep up with the news this week? Here’s your chance to brag… or not. This week there are 11 questions. Good luck!
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A new version of Calibre, the Swiss-army knife for e-book management is out, and it brings some notable new features for e-bookworms to dig into. Calibre 8.0.1 boasts improved support for Kobo e-readers, with Calibre now equipped to natively edit, view…
Calibre 8.0 open-source ebook management software is now available for download with much improved Kobo support and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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Blender, the popular free open-source 3D computer graphics software, announced new 4.4 release few days ago. The new release added many exciting new features, improved performances, and fixed over 700 issues. Blender 4.4 adds support for rendering videos using the H.265/HEVC codec, which supports resolutions up to 8192×4320. And during rendering, user can set a […]
Didn’t get around to trying last year’s elementary OS 8.0 release? No bother as elementary OS 8.1 arrived this week, providing an opportune jumping-on point for new users. Based atop the recent Ubuntu 24.04.2 release, elementary OS 8.1 is p…
It looks as if the green light is on for another ‘All Things Open AI’ conference in 2026. It’s likely that a firm date will be announced at the big tent All Things Open event in October.
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by George Whittaker
Introduction
Linux is a powerful operating system favored by developers, system administrators, and power users due to its flexibility and efficiency. However, f…